Facebook and WhatsApp is ready to work together in Mountain View

Facebook is
buying mobile messaging provider WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock.
This acquisition has been announced by Facebook co-founder and chief executive
officer, Mark Zuckerberg on his page on Wednesday, the 19th
February, 2014. He stated that WhatsApp will complement Facebook’s existing
chat and messaging services with new tools providing a strong network effect in
communication around the world.As a part of the
deal, WhatsApp co-founder and chief executive officer Jan Koum will join the
board of Facebook and the entire WhatsApp team will be working under Facebook
in Mountain View.

WhatsApp Messenger is a kind of
cross-platform mobile messaging app allowing people to exchange messages
without having to pay extra for SMS. This is generally available for iPhone,
BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia, etc. WhatsApp Messenger uses the
same internet data plan that people use for email and web browsing, so no extra
cost arises to message and stay in touch with friends. This App also
facilitates creating groups and exchanging each other unlimited image, video
and audio media message.

This
deal will definitely make communication services on Facebook more convenient and
helpful to people around the world. In his announcement, Mark Zuckerberg said
that WhatsApp is a simple, fast and reliable mobile messaging service used by
over 450 million people on every major mobile platform and more than 1 million
people sign up for WhatsApp every day and it is on its way to connecting one
billion people.

However, WhatsApp
will be continuing to operate independently within Facebook as the product
roadmap of WhatsApp will remain unchanged. Zuckerberg stated that they are going to
work hard to help WhatsApp grow and connect the whole world. He expects that WhatsApp
will add their efforts for Internet.org, partnership to make basic internet
services affordable for everyone. According to him, Facebook Messenger is
widely used for chatting with Facebook friends and WhatsApp for communicating
with small groups of people. Since both serve such different but important
uses, they will continue investing in both and making them each great product
for everyone.

Mark Zuckerberg
thrilled to express that Jan Koum and his WhatsApp team have done amazing work to
connect almost half a billion people and so, he cannot wait for them to join
Facebook and help Facebook connect the rest of the world.

Now people are cheerful as WhatsApp, the largest
messaging service in the world, will now work with Facebook and the best
services of communication will be easily available for the communities in the
world.

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